Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 27
September 27: Meskel in Ethiopia and Eritrea; World Tourism Day.
- 1540 – Pope Paul III issued the papal bull Regimini militantis, approving the formation of the Society of Jesus, a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, by St. Ignatius of Loyola.
- 1825 – Locomotion No. 1 (pictured) hauled the first train on opening day of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first railway to use steam locomotives and carry passengers.
- 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².
- 1937 – The Bali Tiger, a small subspecies of tiger found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali, was officially declared extinct.
- 1988 – Led by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, a political party, was founded in Burma (now known as Myanmar).
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